Re: external tables

> The idea is, you can now perform sql on this 20gb flat file. You> probably wouldn't want to use it> directly in joins if it's that big but you can now easily distribute it.> You can use it to merge into=20> other tables or insert /*+ append */ for direct path access.

And Oracle claims that even PARALLEL option works on external tables...

Tanel.

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